Seth Goldfarb

Coordinator at PNW Blockchain

Hyperledger welcomes Ethereum Foundation, Microsoft, and others to consortium

Hyperledger announced it has accepted eight new members and launched a new project focusing on new infrastructure for decentralized identity, including the Ethereum Foundation and Microsoft. The Ethereum Foundation is proud to lend our support to the efforts of both the @EntEthAlliance and @Hyperledger through our membership today. Together, we'll continue to drive forward #Ethereum's […]

Hyperledger welcomes Ethereum Foundation, Microsoft, and others to consortium

PayPal, Mastercard, Visa, Uber and Stripe investing in Facebook’s new cryptocurrency

PayPal, Mastercard, Visa, Stripe, and Uber will be among over a dozen companies investing approximately $10 million each to back Facebook’s new cryptocurrency. Announced in the Wall Street Journal, the companies will join a consortium to govern the token. Facebook Global Holdings registered “Libra Networks” in Switzerland as a financial technology company focusing on blockchain […]

PayPal, Mastercard, Visa, Uber and Stripe investing in Facebook’s new cryptocurrency

International Accounting Standards Board believes Bitcoin will be gone within five years

The FASB and IASB, the two main rule-setting bodies for accounting standards worldwide, cited “lack of usage” as the main reason for not clarifying cryptocurrency accounting treatments. So far, onerous accounting standards have hindered Bitcoin and cryptocurrency adoption. The California Society of CPAs (CalCPA) is pushing for clearer accounting and disclosure rules for cryptocurrencies. Accounting […]

International Accounting Standards Board believes Bitcoin will be gone within five years

Microsoft announces VeriSol: Ethereum smart contract verification

Microsoft announced the development of an open-source formal Ethereum smart contract verification scheme for the Solidity programming language. Announced on the Microsoft blog, the tool will be called VeriSol–Verifier for Solidity. VeriSol will enable developers to write specifications for their contracts using an intermediate language that can then be tested using mathematical logic machinery. The Microsoft […]

Microsoft announces VeriSol: Ethereum smart contract verification